More educators are wising up, they say, to the reality that most students have phones or other mobile devices that could allow them to give real-time feedback to a lecture on a text-message back channel, take pictures during a science field trip, or answer teacher prompts with online polling.
And with the increasing capabilities and prevalence of mobile devices, the growing demand for K-12 students to be comfortable learning online, and the shrinking technology budgets of districts coping with the aftermath of the Great Recession, allowing students to use their own mobile devices is making more sense to more people.
Children's Internet Protection Act | FCC.gov - 0 views
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The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law enacted by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school and library computers. CIPA imposes certain types of requirements on any school or library that receives funding for Internet access or internal connections from the E-rate program - a program that makes certain communications technology more affordable for eligible schools and libraries. In early 2001, the FCC issued rules implementing CIPA.
Education Week: Schools Open Doors to Students' Mobile Devices - 1 views
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Recent research shows the proportion of students owning cellphones is increasing. A January survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation found about two-thirds of 8- to 18-year-olds owned cellphones, while more than three-quarters had an iPod or other MP3 media player. And an April study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project reported that when you change the age bracket to 12- to 17-year-olds, 75 percent of students have cellphones—and often smartphones that are capable of completing many of the same online functions as laptop computers and netbooks.
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“What we need to do as schools is to teach our kids to be responsible users,
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"More educators are wising up, they say, to the reality that most students have phones or other mobile devices that could allow them to give real-time feedback to a lecture on a text-message back channel, take pictures during a science field trip, or answer teacher prompts with online polling. And with the increasing capabilities and prevalence of mobile devices, the growing demand for K-12 students to be comfortable learning online, and the shrinking technology budgets of districts coping with the aftermath of the Great Recession, allowing students to use their own mobile devices is making more sense to more people."
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10 Ways to Use QR Codes in Your Classroom - 2 views
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I was just thinking last night about doing something with QR codes in my Multimedia class. Great link! -
Now I need to find out more about AR Codes
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Thanks this was a great article.
Classroom 2.0 - 0 views
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the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education.
25 Tools - 0 views
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These tools have been taken from the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008 list compiled from the Top 10 Tools lists of nearly 200 learning professionals worldwide and are a mix of personal productivity tools (for managing personal learning) as well as authoring tools (for creating learning solutions). Many of them are Web 2.0 tools that promote a social, collaborative, sharing approach to learning.
Evaluating Web Resources - 0 views
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Is the Web a good research tool? This question is dependent on the researcher's objective. As in traditional print resources one must use a method of critical analysis to determine its value. Here is a checklist for evaluating web resources to help in that determination.
Kick Start Your Blogging | Teacher Challenge - 3 views
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Step by step process through activity challenges to kick start your teacher blog. Leveled for different paces of learning.
Dell Digital Content Adoption Services - 0 views
Paper Cranes for Japan | Diigo - 0 views
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Great class project!
http://opus.bath.ac.uk/11408/1/getting_started_with_QR_Codes.pdf - 0 views
